SHShaliza Hassanali

1. Article · Sep 13, 2026 · Shaliza Hassanali

   Cox challenges TSTT over ‘forced’ exit (opens the original)

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   For­mer act­ing CEO of the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT), Keino Cox, is chal­leng­ing the com­pa­ny’s de­ci­sion to place him on “ad­min­is­tra­tive leave” and the “non-re­new­al” of his act­ing CEO po­si­tion. On Ju­ly 31, Cox’s con­tract as TSTT’s act­ing CEO end­ed af­ter the com­pa­ny’s board re­viewed his per­for­mance. Af­ter a year at the helm of state-owned TSTT, Cox, who has over 25 years of lead­er­ship ex­pe­ri­ence in telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions, dig­i­t

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2. Article · Sep 6, 2026 · Shaliza Hassanali

   The predicament in Plum Mitan: Residents say closure of farm led to job losses, community challenges (opens the original)

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   In Plum Mi­tan, the once-promis­ing Marp­er Farm, known for its prop­a­ga­tion ini­tia­tives, is fac­ing a de­cline. Af­ter a 2012 re­vival that pro­duced 300,000 plants, which cre­at­ed a two-year On-the-Job Train­ing (OJT) pro­gramme for 40 res­i­dents in the rur­al com­mu­ni­ty, the farm, which falls un­der the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture, has seen its plant pro­duc­tion, rang­ing from fruits, co­conuts, cit­rus, av­o­ca­dos, cashews and bread­fruit, take a nose­dive. The pro­gramme, which bol

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3. Article · Aug 16, 2026 · Shaliza Hassanali

   67 gone from State boards, public offices in 14 months (opens the original)

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   In less than 14 months, 67 in­di­vid­u­als on State boards or in pub­lic of­fices have ei­ther left their po­si­tions, been fired or been placed on ad­min­is­tra­tive leave. The 67 peo­ple in­clude those who re­signed, were ter­mi­nat­ed, sent on leave, forced in­to pre-re­tire­ment, had their ap­point­ments re­voked, de­part­ed due to health is­sues or en­tered in­to mu­tu­al sep­a­ra­tion agree­ments un­der the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) ad­min­is­tra­tion. Many of these in­di­vid­u­al

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4. Article · Aug 9, 2026 · Shaliza Hassanali

   Experts warn T&T reaching a racial breaking point (opens the original)

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   His­to­ri­an, Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies lec­tur­er, and ad­vo­cate for so­cial jus­tice, Jerome Teelucks­ingh, fears that racism in Trinidad and To­ba­go has reached a dif­fer­ent lev­el now. “We have reached a turn­ing point … it’s not a good turn­ing point. I am see­ing a re­gres­sion in pol­i­tics. Let me tell you some­thing … racism is one of the ele­phants in the room that we don’t like to talk about. But we keep feed­ing that ele­phant of racism be­cause we are afraid to tack­le it

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5. Article · Aug 2, 2026 · Shaliza Hassanali

   Refinery restart faces scepticism from industry expert despite Govt push (opens the original)

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   As a restart for the Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery looms ahead, for­mer Petrotrin chair­man Wil­fred Es­pinet, who led the clo­sure and re­struc­tur­ing of the com­pa­ny, re­mains scep­ti­cal. He told Guardian Me­dia in June that it was un­like­ly that any for­eign or re­gion­al com­pa­ny would want to man­age the re­fin­ery on the ba­sis that they would have to re­in­state all the terms and con­di­tions of the con­tracts be­fore the re­struc­tur­ing was done. Es­pinet was re­fer­ring to the im­pli

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